Sound Off: March 11

BORDER WALL — It is so amusing to hear these wet-behind-ears commentators try to tell us the many reasons why Trump cannot build the wall on the border.

USPS — If you live in Las Cruces and send mail to a Las Cruces address, your mail goes from the Las Cruces postal system to the El Paso postal system to be sorted for delivery, then it comes back to Las Cruces. Perhaps this is where the problem of late delivery occurs.

THANKS — Tuesday at IHOP on Highway 70, my husband had attended a breakfast meeting of China Burma India WWII vets, and as we were leaving, a gentleman told the cashier to give him our check and thanked my husband for his service to our country. Thank you, sir!

DRIVERS' LICENSES — Our governor has signed the REAL ID compromise she aggressively opposed for five years, which she now claims as a victory. It took a politically correct renaming (we get a "license," they get a "permit") and a face-saving lie, but at least she signed it.

POLITICS — How can a presidential candidate say the country needs to come together in front of one crowd, and say she is proudest to have Republicans as an enemy in front of another group? Mrs. Clinton, Republicans are not ISIS, we are Americans.

2016 — People say Trump has no political background. Well, look at the president we have now. He was a community organizer and a senator for 743 days.

READING — Hats off to the many volunteers who went into the area classrooms to read to students as part of the Read Across America event and to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday.

NMSU — It's time at NMSU for Garrey Carruthers and Dan Howard to think outside of the box regarding money. The football program needs to be eliminated, not simply demoted to a lower level of collegiate football. The problems at NMSU are financial and this is one way to save a great deal of money and help the university stay solvent.

RATE CASE — Well, I appreciate all the posturing and writing by city and county officials about the El Paso Electric rate increase. I just wonder if people have any idea how much their electric bill increased because of the additional gross receipts tax imposed by the city and the county? They got a rate increase, but it went to the city and the county.

USPS — The person commenting on the post office is absolutely right. They do not serve this area the way they should. Letters are not delivered, letters are not received. They have terrible service. Somebody ought to look into this, it's just totally bad.

DA — I was watching the O.J. Simpson trial on "Dateline" last night. The incompetency of the prosecution reminded me of Amy Orlando and her cronies in trial.

SANDLER COLUMN — After reading Gary Sandler's article revealing that one can be charged with a felony if one helps a family member or neighbor to lease their property, all I can say is the professional real estate lobby in Santa Fe is really greedy.

HIGHER ED — Ditto to what the caller said about NMSU being run into the ground. Dona Ana Community College is being run into the ground by the two women Carruthers put into place. The face they put on for the community is that everything is great, but things are not. It's failing.

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